Mahe Fonua will return to Australia at the end of this season needing extra luggage allowance for the amount of memories he’ll have packed away.

Two years after arriving from Melbourne Storm as a player looking to re-ignite his career, he will head to Wests Tigers with a reputation cemented as one of the most feared wingers in world rugby.

Two years that have brought with them two Challenge Cup winners’ medals, three tries at Wembley, two days he’ll never forget and celebrations that despite being a little hazy, will also forever live in the memory.

CHAMPAGNE SHOWERS: Hull FC's Mahe Fonua. (Image: PA)

Whether on or off the field, it’s been the best move Fonua ever made. He’ll head home happy, but satisfied? Not unless he has a special ring on his finger when he boards that plane.

“I’ve been very fortunate to have been a part of two winning teams at Wembley and having won the Challenge Cup, but I want a taste of the Grand Final,” Fonua told the Mail.

“That’s our focus now and we will be striving for that and to do the best we can because I don’t want this to be my last success with this club.”

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Having worn a t-shirt on the Wembley team run as worst trainer that week, FC coach Lee Radford had considered whether the departing winger should play or if Steve Michaels should take his place.

The decision paid off and not just thanks to his two tries, but his devastating performance out wide.

“This is right up there with anything. To get my first win in my first year when Hull had never won at Wembley and then to do it back-to-back, from a football point of view, this is up there with anything,” explained Fonua.

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“Some people go their whole career without getting these sort of opportunities and I feel very blessed to have been part of this for two years in a row.

“I thought I had a third try, that would have been the icing on the cake. I was cheering and I thought that was the match won, it would have been a big game changer but the football gods didn’t want it that way. We won, that’s the most important thing.”